The Student Experience

Commitment From Scholars

I will be ready to learn by 8:30 a.m.
I will attend all required synchronous courses and complete asynchronous work throughout the day.
I will attend required and supplemental Office Hours to receive academic support.
I will complete all assigned work, as specified, and without compromising my academic integrity.
I will share reports of my academic and behavioral progress with my family.

Student Code of Conduct

The Key Principle of the LAB Community is Respect.

The fundamental orienting principle for the Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools (“LAB” or “the School”) community is respect. At LAB, we emphasize respect for the learning environment, our LAB community and for each scholar. LAB is committed to providing a safe and respectful school culture in which all scholars can achieve academically. Without a firm and consistent discipline policy, none of what we imagine for our scholars can be achieved.

STUDENT EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW

The Remote School experience for scholars will be one that is accessible to all learning styles, presents intriguing lessons and assignments, and is personalized based on a constant review of data. To achieve this experience, scholars will have a mix of live, teacher led, classroom sessions, independent work, and small group learning clusters during a teacher's office hours. These learning structures directly lead to a schedule that potentially will change every two weeks depending on the scholar's academic progress. Based on student progress, a student’s time spent in direct synchronous learning during office hours will vary. This ensures all scholars are getting individualized attention in the areas in which they need the most help or further progression. To complete their daily experience, students will have an advisory period that is based on success coaching and social emotional support.

Asynchronous Learning

Definition:

Asynchronous learning in remote environments allows students to participate and complete work on their own time. Students receive materials such as readings, videos, and websites to explore from the teacher and submit work via email or Google Classroom by a given deadline.

Types of Asynchronous Learning

Do Nows: Students will have at least an asynchronous Do Now for off-day classes each day.
Other Independent Work: Students will have around 9 to 10 hours of asynchronous work per week. This asynchronous independent work should be completed on the timeline shared from individual classes and teachers.
Office Hours: Asynchronous office hours are a supplement to the synchronous outlined below. These could be delivered through the course discussion board, a FAQ document, or a weekly post of the questions that were most frequently asked. These will not take the place of synchronous office hours described below.

SYNCHRONOUS Learning

Definition:

Definition: Synchronous learning in virtual environments requires students to join a live classroom at a given time. Materials are presented through screen share features, videos, or presentation slides. Sessions can also be recorded to be reviewed at a later time.

Types of Synchronous Learning

Advisory: Students will engage in either a morning or afternoon advisory session with a teacher. This synchronous time will focus on social-emotional learning, discussion on goals and progress toward goals, success coaching, and building culture within the school community.
Live Content Instruction: This synchronous experience will happen daily. On A days, students will engage with Math & Science live. On B days students see their History and ELA teachers. Students receive live writing instruction daily. On Friday (C days), students engage with all content areas. Twice a week, students will take Art and Health. They will either be assigned those classes on Monday and Thursday or Tuesday and Wednesday. When they are not in art and health, students will have flex time to complete asynchronous work.
Office Hours: Office Hours happen on the off-days of synchronous classes. During this time, the teacher may choose to engage students in drop-in office hours, scheduled office hours, or a combination of both. See below for
- - Drop-In Office Hours: Students can “drop in” to ask questions or receive clarification on learning content. This is a consistent time that students can receive additional support or help from the teacher.
  - Scheduled Office Hours: Students can have scheduled appointments for office hours. This works similar to the drop-in time, but students are pre-scheduled into time increments within the office-hour block.
  - Combination Office Hours: There may be certain office hours that are drop-in while others are scheduled. This allows for flexibility of the drop-in while also adding the structure of the scheduled office hours.

Engagement Details

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